As we forecast, the new policy on illegal immigration last week has unleashed considerable emotion, particularly among Trump’s opponents and immigration supporters and activists. Media coverage also continues to be egregiously bad. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer had a panel that very evening which, yet again, played the “short version” of last…
Read MoreIn his just published book, Ronan Farrow writes: When the call was over, Clancy hung up and turned to her partner, dumbfounded. “We’re all being fired.” Like a lot of young diplomats, Erin Clancy had joined the [U.S.] Foreign Service after 9/11. She wanted to make the world safer. She…
Read MoreReports and comments on Donald’s Trump’s renewed “tweet storms” after the New Year holidays are as woefully uninformed and emotional as in 2017. The President tweeted that North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his…
Read MoreIn our report yesterday on the German federal elections, we pointed out that The AfD itself, however, is split between pragmatic politicians willing to compromise with other parties and right-wing nationalists who are expected to use the platform offered by the Bundestag to announce principled opposition based on outright racist…
Read MoreThe German federal elections on 24 September 2017 confirm ESC’s long-standing analysis of Western politics that: western politicians are out of touch, arrogant and uninterested in the views of the electorate the West’s commentariat is equally out of touch, arrogant and uninterested in the views of the electorate millions of…
Read MoreOn Wednesday 25 July 2017, President Trump’s announcement on Twitter that transgender people would be banned from serving in the US military predictably made the headlines. But just days before, Chinese warships entered the Baltic Sea for the first time – a profound development which was barely registered by the…
Read MoreLess than a month after the hysteria and sheer bad thinking levelled at the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, some sanity and common sense have returned to some of the climate change community. As we wrote at the time, if…
Read MoreWill Gore is Deputy Managing Editor of The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He “writes on a range of topics, including weekly columns about media ethics (having previously worked in press regulation).” Four days after the “surprising result” of the British general election held on 8 June 2017, he…
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